N.C. Wyeth - 3

Most, if not all illustrators are rarely happy with what happens to their art after the work goes into production. In the following pieces we see the results of some sloppy handling of N.C. Wyeth's monumental paintings. Certainly they were large. He painted big, and in oils—for the most part. It couldn't have been a piece of cake for the guys working the large process cameras that it would have been necessary to use in those days. Shooting high quality color positive film wouldn't be possible for many decades.

Then there's the printing, cheap paper, terrible register of the four-color presses.
Here they are, in lieu of someone finding the originals down in Chadds Ford and creating some state-of-the-art separations. It's good stuff and well worth preserving for posterity. Click on images to enlarge.

They're all from Scribner's Monthly Magazine from 1909 through 1911.

The War Clouds, March 1909.

Illustrations for poems by George T. Marsh. The line drawing is not Wyeth's. That illustrator was Franklin Booth. December 1909.

Spring.

Summer.

Autumn.

Winter.

The Pay-stage, August 1910.

"It was hard to remember that he was only the wandering leader of an Arab caravan." January 1911.